Joy with friends and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream

I was in Columbus, Ohio last weekend visiting with some sweet friends that I’ve met through blogging… Wendy of Wenderly, Bridget of Bake at 350, and Amy of She Wears Many Hats. Hi guys! I mean girls.

Wendy lives in Ohio and invited us to spend a few days at her cabin in the woods. Has anyone seen that movie? And yes, I totally spent the weekend suggesting scary movie situations to them. What if this – and what if that. But mostly scaring myself. I definitely watch way too many SyFy Sunday movies. If you watch that channel, you know the ones I mean.

Anyway, we kicked off our fun cabining weekend with a straight from the airport pitstop for lunch and then Jeni’s ice cream. Yay!

Jeni’s is based in Ohio and I’ve been wanting to visit one of her scoop shops for some time now.

She has some incredible flavors. Or should I say splendid.

And yogurt too.

I love all the chalk writing and window words. So cute.

The inside of the store is perfect with the ceiling strung in little lights and paper garland.

Soothing for the sickly. Made with cayenne pepper, ginger, bourbon, honey, orange and lemon juices.

Handwritten! Love it and love how the same flavors are written by different people. What a fun way to add that personal touch.

And now I have a strange desire get a job handwriting ice cream labels. I wonder if I could add hearts and smiley faces.

By the way, if you’re in Ohio, stop what you are doing right now and run and get some of that Maple Walnut ice cream. It’s fantastic. I think that container on the top right is actually mocking me right now with all of its maple amazingness. I even tried to order some more today online, but that flavor is seasonal and isn’t shipping. Wipes tear. So get it in stores while you can.

Sweet friends, ice cream and a great start to our winter weekend away.

The staff at Jeni’s was great. Super patient. They didn’t even mind the 571 samples we asked for. But I think that’s pretty smart of them, because then we ended up ordering 571 scoops to enjoy. You know … just to be absolutely sure they were good. : )

Okay not really 571 scoops, but several. Here’s a few of the flavors we all sampled.

Enjoyed and instagrammed. It’s a mandatory food blogging thing … to share when something is so so good.

While we were laughing and sampling, we had a fun surprise. Jeni stopped in the location we were at. With several stores, we certainly weren’t expecting that. Wendy had met her before so she introduced us.

Hi Jeni! Your ice cream makes my tummy happy.

Such a great smile. It’s nice to see when people are doing something they love.

Visit Jeni’s Ice Cream for online ordering, scoop shop locations and where to buy by the pint in other states.

To enter, just leave a comment on this blog post and answer the following question.

Are you all about ice cream, serious for sorbet, or full on frozen yogurt? What’s your favorite frozen treat?

Deadline to enter is Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 9 pm ET. SORRY, TIME’S UP. WINNER ANNOUNCED BELOW. This giveaway is open to US residents only since Jeni’s ships in the United States. I’m sorry international friends.

One winner will be selected at random and announced sometime Sunday on this post.

Note: The winner can choose the collection or a gift card for the equivalent. You know, in case 17 pints of ice cream won’t fit in your freezer. : )

Good luck guys!

Well. I’m happy to see so many of you are as fantacial about ice cream as I am. And now we have a winner.

2. Holy hell this is a dream. You all were just a couple hours away. Love Jeni’s. Love Bridget!!! {This was NOT the time for a Texas girl to come to Ohio though!} Hope you had a great time in our Buckeye State.

While I like ice cream (I went to Penn State- you can’t go there and NOT like what The Creamery cranks out!), I LOVE frozen yogurt. I worked in a frozen yogurt shop back in high school MANY moons ago (TCBY was the big then back in that day) and 4 years of it really gave me a taste for the flavor but not the heavy flavor/residue on your tongue. Thanks for the chance- these look fantastic!!

I HAVE to have ice cream every day! Ice cream with lots and lots of chunks of chocolate, peanut butter, nuts or any other cookie bits are all welcome in my frozen treat. I’m crazy for frozen yogurt too.

I bought Jeni’s book last year & I LOVE it!
I love the story of her & how she started – then started again. It’s full of wonderful & different recipes. Very easy to follow too.
At my house it’s all about ice cream- I like to make her base recipe & add vanilla bean & caramel with pecans.
Thanks for the chance to win the REAL THING!

I love ice cream or frozen yogurt, but I’ll take sorbet too! And I certainly can make room for 17 quarts of ice cream in the freezer. I may have to give away some food to the neighbors, but I see it as a win-win.

Ice cream. When I was in college, I dated a boy who LOVED frozen yogurt, but he knew how much I loved ice cream. And whenever we went to get ice cream together, I knew he was showing me that he loved me. Not all “irreconcilable differences” are bad things, I guess.

Ice cream, usually – though I make an exception for the very unique and out of this world Scream Sorbet in Oakland. By the power of science they make dairy-less sorbet that tastes like more awesome ice cream than, well, most ACTUAL ice cream.

Hmmm….I love ice cream, but I have a soft spot for froyo, especially when I can fill my cup with as many flavors as I want and top it with all of my favorites (like Cap’n Crunch!) at a froyo bar. My favorite is Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food, or Smart Cow (a local froyo bar) with any of their amazing flavors like cinnamon bun, pistachio, white chocolate mouse or red velvet cupcake!

Wow, I need to plan a road trip to Ohio! Everything looks delicious. I’m a sorbet girl all the way! I have a major lactose allergy, so I’m happy there are so many flavors! I hardly miss ice cream! Thank you for such a generous giveaway :)

Oh my, how we love Jeni’s! The recipes in her book are super easy to follow and really genuinely taste just like the ice cream in the shop.

Anyways, my favorite frozen treat is Jeni’s Queen City Cayenne and Bangkok Peanut (I have to get them both at once so I can pretend I am eating this wicked awesome frozen spicy peanut butter cup). If I am going for froyo – Jeni’s Lemon with Blueberries is my first choice! Yum!

Oh man! Ice cream all the way! I can eat it year round. Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate – rocky road, Phish food, chocolate peanut butter swirl. Now I really want some ice cream and none in the freezer! Hope I win :-)